The Dance of Death (Penguin Classics)

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An invaluable new reproduction of Holbein’s woodcuts of The Dance of Death
 
Certainly one of Hans Holbein’s first great triumphs, The Dance of Death is an incomparable sequence of tiny woodcuts showing the folly of human greed and pride. Each and every image is packed with drama, wit, and horror, as a skeleton mocks and terrifies everyone from the emperor to a ploughman. Taking full benefit of the new literary culture of the early sixteenth century, The Dance of Death took an old medieval theme and made it new.
 
This edition reproduces a complete set from the British Museum, with many details highlighted and examples of other works on this grisly field included. Ulinka Rublack introduces the woodcuts with a remarkable essay at the late medieval Danse Macabre (the Dance of Death) and the world Holbein lived in.
 
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the most productive works all over history and across genres and disciplines. Readers believe the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and up to date authors, in addition to up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.


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